The Mistletoe Promise

A new holiday story from the best-selling master of the Christmas novel. It isn’t Christmas without a Richard Paul Evans novel. Ever since he wrote the book that inspired the genre, The Christmas Box, his best-selling holiday stories have become a beloved literary tradition.

Lost December

When Luke graduates from Wharton with his MBA, his father, CEO and co-founder of Fortune 500 Crisp’s Copy Centers, is ready to share some good news: he wants to turn the family business over to his son. But Luke has other plans. Taking control of his trust funds, Luke leaves home to pursue a life of wanton pleasure seeking. But when his funds run out, so do his friends. Humbled and alone, Luke takes a job at one of his father's copy centers.

Finding Noel

The Christmas season is supposed to be full of joy, but not for Mark Smart. Life has dealt him one blow after another, until one snowy November night, when he meets a beautiful young woman who will change his life forever. Macy Wood has little memory of her birth parents, and memories she'd rather forget of her adopted home.

A Winter Dream

Joe is forced out of the family business by his jealous siblings. Moving on to another company, he soon becomes chief advisor to the CEO. But when the economy turns, Joe's siblings need his help to save the family business. Based on the Old Testament story about Joseph and the coat of many colors and including a love story, A Winter Dream can be embraced for its message of forgiveness by believers and nonbelievers alike.

The Gift: A Novel

Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world, it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood. But then a snowstorm, a canceled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles.

Promise Me

Beth Cardall has a secret. For 18 years, she has had no choice but to keep it to herself, but on Christmas Eve 2008, all that is about to change. For Beth, 1989 was a year marked by tragedy. She had lost any ability to trust, to hope, or to believe in herself. Then, on Christmas Day, as she rushed through a blizzard to the nearest 7-Eleven, Beth encountered Matthew, a strikingly handsome, mysterious stranger, who would single-handedly change the course of her life.

The Broken Road

Celebrity Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway, the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted - fame, fans, and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. Coming from a childhood of poverty and pain, this is what he's dreamed of. But now, at the pinnacle of his career, he's started to wonder if he's wanted the wrong things.

The Christmas Shoes

Robert is a successful attorney who has everything in life, and nothing at all. Focused on professional achievement and material rewards, Robert has lost sight of his wife, family and, ultimately, himself. An eight-year-old Nathan is losing his beloved mother, Maggie, to cancer. But Nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life, and struggling to hold on to every moment they have.

Grace: A Novel

Grace is the story of a young runaway girl and the boy who hides her from a frightening world too large and unfathomable for him to comprehend. It is also about two brothers and the love that binds them together through difficult times.

The Sunflower: A Novel

Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol, The Sunflower.

Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmas Novel

Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how: by killing him with kindness.

The Carousel

This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion, but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: there are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives: the demands of family, friends, work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times, no matter how much two people love each other, a relationship must grow strong or be torn apart.

The Looking Glass

The Looking Glass is the story of Hunter Bell, a Presbyterian minister turned gambler, and the founder of a gold camp named Bethel. (Which you may remember was Esther's hometown in The Locket.) He is running from the bitter memories of his past, his ministry, and ultimately, from his God. Venturing into a blizzard to chase away wolves drawn close to his cabin by hunger, Hunter finds a beautiful young woman in the snow, wounded by the wolves and half dead with the cold.

The Locket: A Novel

After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home, where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. "Do you suppose life gives us second chances?" Esther asks Michael one day. "I don't know. But we'd probably just make the same mistake over again," he concludes. Michael faces his own challenges when he loses his greatest love, Faye.

Dashing Through the Snow: A Christmas Novel

Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, has a job interview in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book a last-minute flight out of San Francisco, both are out of luck: Every flight is full, and there's only one rental car available. Ashley and Dash reluctantly decide to share the car, but neither anticipates the wild ride ahead.

The Four Doors: A Guide to Joy, Freedom, and a Meaningful Life

Richard Paul Evans is the master of the holiday novel. As an integral part of the celebratory season, he has warmed millions of hearts with books including A Winter Dream, Lost December, and Promise Me. This new story of hope, faith, and love is the perfect gift of inspiration and is sure to be an instant Christmas classic.

Melanie McLaughlin desperately wants to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas. A just-for-the-holiday marriage to Bryce Landry fits her plan perfectly...until unexpected sparks have Melanie dreaming of forever by his side....

Publisher's Summary

Dear Listener,

When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field with a remarkably low on-the-job casualty rate.

What intrigues me most about Mrs. Johnson's assignment is the opportunity she gave us to confront our own legacy. How do we want to be remembered? That question has motivated our species since the beginning of time: from building pyramids to putting our names on skyscrapers.

As I began to write this book, I had two objectives: First, I wanted to explore what could happen if someone read their obituary before they died and saw, firsthand, what the world really thought of them. Their legacy.

Second, I wanted to write a Christmas story of true redemption. One of my family's holiday traditions is to see a local production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I don't know how many times I've seen it (perhaps a dozen), but it still thrills me to see the change that comes over Ebenezer Scrooge as he transforms from a dull, tight-fisted miser into a penitent, "giddy-as-a-schoolboy" man with love in his heart. I always leave the show with a smile on my face and a resolve to be a better person. That's what I wanted to share with you, my dear listeners, this Christmas - a holiday tale to warm your season, your homes, and your hearts.

I did not realize I have had this book for such a long time; however, I began listening without knowing anything about the story. The story has an initial grab to pull you in; but, it really doesn't need it. It moves along and sounds realistic. All of the characters feel very believable. They seem real from the beginning. The story feels real. Then, the character has an incident and he changes nearly immediately. As a reader - I didn't believe it; and, neither did anyone else in the story. I think that what makes this story compelling is that I am not even sure the main character believes he has changed. As the story progresses though both the reader and the main character come to realize that he has changed. The story is smooth; i.e., it flows like a gentle river. It is the kind of story I would like to tell if I could tell a story as easy as this one was to read. There is a nice ending and a nice 'moral to the story.' The reader had the perfect voice to read this story.

Since 2009 I have read this book at Christmas time, 2012 I saw I could add this to my audible collection so I did. Listening to the book not once but 4 times during the Holiday season. The story telling was brought to life in what i call a Very modern day Dickins. If you like how people can change and how they search for forgiveness. How they seek to make things right for the bad things they have done, then you will love this story. From your heart you will be touched and you will see how searching for forgiveness you find piece in ones self. All wrapped up in a holiday classic that fits in everyday life through out the year.

Who was your favorite character and why?

His secretary to helps guide him and ends up being there for him throughout his journey. This book is full of strong willed women whether it's his ex wife who battles cancer with a broken heart or the waitress working any job she can to take care of her son and give them a life, or the Secretary facing personal health issues with her husband and yet being there every step of the way for her boss as he looks for forgiveness.

Which character – as performed by John Dossett – was your favorite?

Question: What kind of man serves divorce papers on his wife the day she arrives home from her first chemo treatment? Or swindles an old friend on a property deal, netting millions for his own pocket while costing his “friend” his shirt? What kind of guy has a son who refuses to invite him to his wedding and dubs Christmas décor “idiot glitter”? John played all the characters so well but the way he played James Kier, ruthless Salt Lake City real estate mogul and main character of this book was so wonderful.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I won't give it away but it was near the end when he went to a diner that just gave this story the full circle and made it so complete

Any additional comments?

So well written by Richard Paul Evans and so well preformed by John Dossett. The story is face paced and touches your heart and mind. Can't recommend this enough to everyone.

Narrated well, some great characters are developed, but the main story is very predictable and average. Mean, nasty man finds the true meaning of love and Christmas after an unpleasant life experience.

I LOVE Christmas and all it represents...redemption, love, joy and so much more. There is just something about it that makes us believe in second chances. This book wraps its arms around all of these things in wonderful and powerful way. It is truly a story you will NEVER forget!